The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-06
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any breed, however good.
A covering of straw, leaves or stalks
burned over garden ground, will serve to
destroy not only seeds but insects.
Experiments show that the native
thick skinned grapes are better winter
keepers than our improved varieties.
Nobody has seen ground narrowed too
much for the preparation of wheat, Tor 1t
is hardly possible to get too fine tilth.
Cabbages, onions and steamed chopped
hay are good for stimulating fowls, and
will greatly increase the laying of eggs.
Under like conditions young animals
make greater gain, in proportion to food
eaten, than those that are fully matured.
If you would not have your improved
Berkshires and Poland -Chinas to dwindle
down to razor-backs, be careful of them.
Do not use fertilizers too lavishly on
potted plants. A small quantity applied
frequently is better than full allow
ance at one time.
The demand for bulls of good blood,
for use on the plains, has been so great
that it has absorbed nearly all the surplus
stock of that kind for years.
1t is said that good butter cannot be
made from the milk of cows kept in q
dark stable, air, light, cleanliness and
warmth being essential where COWS are
kept for profit.
Raise everything needed on the farm
and make cotton surplus crop-such is
the rule the Southern planters are adopt
ing, in order ''to find their way out OF
the Wilderness"
The Garden journal observes: "Little
scientific knowledge is necessary to full
belief in the importance of repeated
changes of ground for kitchen garden
crops, and to fully carry out systematic
rotation"
A writer says: ';Potato growers should
run common harrow lengthwise of their
rows Just before the plants push their
noses through, and thus destroy all weeds;
afterward cultivate flat through the sea-
son with common cultivator.
The Indiana Farmer says: Mr.. G. D.
Heldt writes US that he cured splint on
the leg of his horse by simply rubbing it
two or three times day till it was
warmed by friction, with corn cob.
He did this during four days, and cused
the horse permanently.
Beets, turnips, carrots and other sue
culent roots and tubers are capital food
for dairy COWS, and so are cotton-seed
and linsced, but it would be as sensible
in a landlady to subsist her boarders on
fruits and plum puddings as for farmer
to rely on those vegetables for the steady
diet of his COWS.
1t is plain to practical farmers that if
there were no means to restore the ex-
hausting fertility of soils the earth would
cease to yield her increase, and all ami
mails, the human family included, perish
from the face of it. Individual cultiva-
tors act most wisely who keep their soils
in maximum producing condition by en-
lightened and generous treatment.
The Atlanta Constitution says red
clover grows readily through Middle
Georgia, and the climate of that region
is a pretty fair average of Southern
climate. Other things being equal,
clover grows best on rather thick clay
soils, and will take care of itself almost
as we'll as ordinary weeds. The journal
says clover is profitable crop on clay and
lime soils in Georgia.
If any one will 60 over corn field in
spring, after frost is out of the ground,
he will find many of the corn stubs tilted
over by the frost, and also so loosened
that they will uproot easily. This shows
that they are mainly near the surface, and
gives hint as to the best method of cul-
ture during the growing season. With
iat culture the roots stand frmest.
Where mound of earth is made around
The corn the frost almost entirely uproots
it.
Gardens are commonly visited very
early by the various kinds of noxious in
sects that destroy the vegetables grown
in them. One reason for this is that
they remain dormant in their hiding
places under weeds, pieces of board or
clods of manure. 1t is common prac-
tice to change the garden spot occasion
sionally, so that the plants when they ap-
pear will not be Immediately disturbed by
their insect enemies. The better plan is
to remove all weeds, litter and rubbish
from gardens. Then late in the fall plow
the soil, leaving it as loose as possible,
md some time during the winter cover
literally with manure. This will give
plenty of time for the soluble fertility of
the manure to leach into and be incor-
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